Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-19 Thread Anton Graham
-fonts. Look for it on your install media and rpm -Uvh. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Can NOT change Desktop icons

2000-06-17 Thread Anton Graham
ncorrect (this is the one created when there is no ~/.gnome directory). Removal of this individual file results regeneration of a working version. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Helix-update in 7.1

2000-06-15 Thread Anton Graham
ou update another package which does have correct menus. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] 7.1 menus

2000-06-14 Thread Anton Graham
ry ?package(local.soffice): . . . Also, I would only use /usr/lib/menu for global menu entries. ~/.menu is where a user's personal entries go. HTH -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] ISO images and CD-R with Nero

2000-06-12 Thread Anton Graham
dialog for how to handle it. The defaults are correct for an ISO image, so you're good to go. (FWIW, I haven't burned 7.1 discs under Nero, but I did burn my 6.0, 6.1, 7.0b, and 7.0 discs with it in exactly this manner) -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] tcsh, man in Mandrake 7.1

2000-06-12 Thread Anton Graham
r) don't have this error in the inputrc.csh and also add some keybindngs because tcsh doesn't use inputrc So, you can either just remove the eual sign or upgrade your initscripts :) HTH -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert]

2000-06-09 Thread Anton Graham
/boot partition. I have three different kernel in there and it's less than 7 MB used. Generally /boot shouldn't be more than 15-20 MB. Anything more is allocating space that will be unused. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] DISCUSION Upgrade (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread Anton Graham
cult. But > yeah, that would be a very nice feature. > Muzza. Actually, the helix-update package *does* check your system first. It compares the version numbers available on the site with the ones in your database of installed rpms. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton G

Re: [expert] cron question

2000-06-06 Thread Anton Graham
p, etc. > > http://www.dhs.org is similar to www.dyndns.com and works with > dynamic or static IP addresses. I don't know if dyndns.com is > free, but dhs.org and either runs on linux or *BSD. dyndns.com is free for subdomain.dyndns.com, and provide for a small fee dynamic dns

Re: [expert] Getting telnet access working on Mdk 7

2000-06-06 Thread Anton Graham
hostname resolving? I had a similar problem, which was fixed by switching around the /etc/hosts file. The default line was: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost telnet localhost didn't work until I switched the localhost.localdomain and localhost portions. -- _ _|_

Re: [expert] Help!

2000-06-05 Thread Anton Graham
irectory /proc/71/fd: Permission denied > du: /proc/3281/fd/4: No such file or directory > > I enter this command as root. > /proc is a "virtual" file system and not everything in there is writeable or able to be cd'd into (even for root). -- _ _|_|_ (

Re: [expert] Filesystem mount / fstab query

2000-06-05 Thread Anton Graham
error is caused by it trying to mount the cd at boot time without a disc in the drive. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

[expert] Date tagged names

2000-06-03 Thread Anton Graham
print $1-1 }') -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Is Nandrake 7.1 beta 2 a beta distro or upgrade for Air?

2000-06-02 Thread Anton Graham
d that you are installing that version, given that Beta 3 has been out for some time now. In answer to the subject query 7.1b2 was a beta distro. 7.1 final should be here soon :) -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m

Re: [expert] SawFish problem

2000-05-31 Thread Anton Graham
es. These are packages or virtual packages (set by Provides) Second is Prereq. These prerequisites aren't for a specific package, but for a specific file. My guess is that you are trying to install the shiny new sawfish on a 7.0 or earlier system without the new menu system. [anton@bladeha

Re: [expert] Partition Table

2000-05-31 Thread Anton Graham
partitions. If you look at the raw partiton data, you will discover that each logical partition actually resides in an extended partition of its own, effectively allowing the use of up to the hardware limit in a single extended partition. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graha

Re: [expert] mail problem

2000-05-31 Thread Anton Graham
an upgrade on it and thus gave it multiple entries. When you do decide to uninstall the greatest mail client for linux, once again there is a command line option that will fix you right up :P rpm -e --allmatches mutt HTH -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ /

Re: [expert] ld.so problems

2000-05-31 Thread Anton Graham
swapon and edit your /etc/fstab appropriately. (note that the #'s and >'s are the prompts :p) -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Out of room on / filesystem

2000-05-29 Thread Anton Graham
handles the mounting of the other partitions), /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and (most critically) /etc/inittab. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] High definition console

2000-05-29 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 29-May-00 by Jean-Louis Debert: | Anton Graham wrote: | > For simple text cols x rows selection in standard resolutions, passing | > vga=ask to the kernel at boot time will get you a menu of standard | > text modes (up to 132x60 which is pretty unreadable on a small | &g

Re: [expert] High definition console

2000-05-29 Thread Anton Graham
es an insane 96 lines on the screen but it is pretty squashed. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Netscape cache, etc.

2000-05-29 Thread Anton Graham
ch that it can't help but be slow. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Win Apps

2000-05-27 Thread Anton Graham
e, it has much less stringent system requirements. It can also be run as either a window in an X session or as an X session itself. I run it on a p166 with no difficulty. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) G

Re: [expert] future distro ideas

2000-05-27 Thread Anton Graham
Kudzu) detects this situation and has you reconfigure X. That is a real show stopper. Also, I *have* seen Windows die completely after an improper shutdown. Rare to be certain, but it does happen. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] future distro ideas

2000-05-27 Thread Anton Graham
r almost a month and have been unable to trash it, including with deliberate hard resets in the middle of multiple ``make'' commands. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Other MTA choices

2000-05-24 Thread Anton Graham
s for postfix. Some Mandrake staffers actually think of sendmail as a security hole at best :) -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] question about LILO

2000-05-19 Thread Anton Graham
SA 2.0 compliant you might want to try an fb kernel. Note that the frambuffer modes will not appear in a `scan' request. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-18 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 17-May-00 by Harlan Whitley: | [-- octet-filter file type: "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows" --] | | WINA20.386: DOS/Windows executable Excuse me, but *what* is this? -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-17 Thread Anton Graham
lay manager of choice does not work with all distributions as some rewrite the script each time X is started. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Where is the script that starts smtp server?

2000-05-17 Thread Anton Graham
drake 7.02? I'm not familiar with qmail, but it should be started by a SysV init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d. Probably has a sensible name like ``qmail,'' as well. Within that file, check out ther start section. HTH -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-16 Thread Anton Graham
that, the button on the bottom or left of it (depending on how you have it setup) acts as a dial/disconnect button. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] I need to rename a bunch of files

2000-05-16 Thread Anton Graham
of if someone has a quick script that they use for this type of thing | with instructions I would gladly use that. how about omething like: for i in *.jpg; do mv $i $(echo $i | tr '-' '.'); done -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7 Security Levels.

2000-05-16 Thread Anton Graham
is documented in the msec documentation. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Dual BP6 motherboard

2000-05-10 Thread Anton Graham
p and vmlinuz) to point at the smp kernel and run /sbin/lilo. HTH -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

Re: [expert] Dual BP6 motherboard

2000-05-09 Thread Anton Graham
can I fix it? | | Thank you so much | Do a "uname -r" (without the quotes) and see if the kernel version you are using is an smp one (i.e. ends in smp). -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG

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